Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'